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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
A great bugbear of mine was always..... when people go into hospital and they already have a supply of perfectly good meds that they were taking at home......why can't they continue to take their own meds in hospital? After all, they are told to bring all their current medications into hospital with them.
That would save hospitals an untold amount of money.
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perhaps it is to make sure the patient is getting what the hospital doctor prescribes?
After all, if for some reason the patients tablets are from home & haven't been kept correctly who will they sue if they get worse instead of better?